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ROS2

I propose a new article be created for ROS2 and leave this article as 'ROS' or 'ROS1'. There are fundamental differences between ROS1 and ROS2, so a small section of this article on ROS2 would not do any justice. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 110.175.136.194 (talk) 11:49, 19 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Disambigulation

ROS also refers to ReactOS, according to ROSASM, ROSBE, etc. 68.185.166.207 (talk) 11:40, 30 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Not middleware!

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Robot Operating System (ROS) is robotics middleware (i.e. collection of software frameworks for robot software development).

This is not what middleware is! Middleware are systems for distributed objects, such as DCOM, CORBA and late time replacements. Robot Operating System contains middleware, fair enough, but it is an operating system level collection of libraries intended for robotics fast prototyping (as far as I can tell). There is a non-middleware core, a middleware set of libraries (according to the real definition), and some more. Rursus dixit. (^mbork³!) 10:13, 21 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

ROS runs on top of Ubuntu (for the most part, although some other OSes are supported). Ubuntu is the OS, ROS is just an application that runs on top of it. ROS is a collection of applications and libraries that go along with them, it's not an OS. 70.32.132.2 (talk) 00:00, 4 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Propose Restructuring

This article could use some work. Besides the introduction, which is pretty good, it's essentially just a timeline of development events, with a bit about ROS-Industrial. I'd like to propose restructuring as follows:

Introduction (edit, update, and expand)
History (narrative)
1. Version list
2. ROS2 (new)
3. ROS-Industrial (verify and update)
ROS Concepts and Construction (new)
Standard ROS Tools (new)
ROS Packages (expand)
1. Packages of note (new)
Robots Which Use ROS (expand)
See Also (expand)
Related Projects (expand)

Some of these sections, such as ROS Concepts and Construction and Standard ROS Tools would be entirely new, needing new references, mostly to the official ROS Tutorials. Thoughts? ApprehensiveAndroid (talk) 16:41, 11 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]

The restructuring I proposed above has now been largely completed. The Design section could use sources from books, the tools section could use improvement. The packages section could possibly be expanded. The ROS-Compatible Robots and Hardware section is woefully incomplete and needs pictures. The history section could also really benefit from pictures. Willow Garage has a bunch on their Flikr which would be great, but they're all rights reserved. ApprehensiveAndroid (talk) 07:13, 29 April 2019 (UTC)[reply]